Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-20

showed himself and who did the ordering
was tall, dressed like a cowboy and IN
masked. All were we'll armed. He
counted five Of them. He could hardly
remember their features, though he saw
several of them perfectly plain.
The Pacific Express messenger, i. 6.
Notnaker, was in the express cal
and when ordered to hand Ovet the
express money handed over only q
small amount. He WAS then beaten bad
ly with their siX-shooters. They evident
ly believing he was concealing q large
amount of money. Only 1925 waS sent
from the San Antonio Office of tn. eX-
press company who rarely transm large
sums on the night trains.
Mr.. Landa was asleep in coach with
his arm out of the window. The robbers
believing he had pistol in his hand Or
dered him to take his hand in. He did
not hear them and they began firing,
shooting him in the hand.
A brakeman was also wounded by 8
stray bullet. There were twenty or
thirty shots fired.
Mr.. Spaulding says he distinctly heard
the order given by the leader: "Don't
touch any passengers and don't shoot
any of our men,"
Cook, the colored porter who was
about to 60 forward to the en-
CINE and flag the crossing, was
the first one to discover the men. He
thought they were tramps. They ordered
him to get back or they would shoot him,
and as he was not quick enough they
began firing on him and the train. All
the men were in good humor, and while
getting their booty laughed and talked.
Mr.. Spaulding thinks, however, they
were green hands in the business.
THE OFFICERS RETURN.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, May 19.-The train rob-
berry at Mcneil continued big sensation
here to-day, which is considered the more
funny because it occurred under the very
nose of the state government. During
the morning, and up to noon, very little
beyond mere rumor could be learned. At
that hour, however, it was ascertained
that some of the posse Of armed citizens
and officers who went out to the scene at
midnight had returned. Among those
who went wss City Marshal Lucy, who
organized posse as soon as the news
was brought, and with him went Deputy
Sheriff Platt and United States
Marshal Rankin, Sergeant Palmer
and Officers Rundel, Gissoway, Jake
Plat, Angling, Bracken, Montgomery and
Walter Robinson. Sheriff Olive of VIII
hanson county and posse came from the
opposite direction towards McNeill sta
ton, besides the Marshal of Round Rock
with another posse also came from the
other side. The country around Mcneil,
or McNeal, is hilly and broken with lime
stone rocks in abundance, besides being
heavily timbeTed. Thespot was
SELECTED WITH GREAT JUDGMENT
by the robbers for their enterprise. As
stated Mcneil is the crossing Of the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the narrow gauge track
of the Austin and Northwestern, the lat
ter going to Burnett. When Cap
tain Lucy's posse - reached Mcneil
early this morning they found the tele-
graph wires cut as was surmiSed last
night, also the telegraphiC instruments
had been smashed into pi with hammers.
After knocking the instruments to pieces
the robbers laid hold of the operator and
showed him around apparently for mere
fun. Having amused themselves in this
manner and INDUCING
IN OCCASIONAL DEMoNIAC LAUGHTER,
one of the thugs pulled his siX-shooter
and hit the luckless lightning singer a
blow over the head, which did not quite
fell him to the floor, but stunned and
made him see sparks. While one
delegation of the bandits were thus
taking care of the operator, another paid
their respects to the engineer. Before
he even suspected what was up, he found
himself covered with a dangerous-look-
ing Winchester, into whose barrel he was
only prevented from looking oy the dark
ness. He saw, however, that the out
laws were men Of strict business, and
not desiring to go to the other and better
world right away, he threw up his hands
and called for quarter.
BLOOD HOUNDS TAKE THE SCENT.
Special to the Gazette
AUSTIN, Tex, May l9.-Captain
Lewis famous blood-hounds lwere
brought here from Hearne on special
train before day this morning and put on
the trail of the bandits. 1t is said they
took the scent readily. District Attorney
went up to Mcneil this morn
ing. Three or four young
men belonging to the neighbor-
hood were arrested on suspicion
but subsequently released on proving an
aliDi. When the robbers were making
ready to 90 through the express car the
engineer, fireman, conductor and ope-
rator were driven into the smoker, which
was their prison during the robbery. An
eye witness, Mr.. Woods, postal agent,
says the tall man, the leader, took a
large sized sack of money out of
the express car, but whether of gold of
silver he could not tell. He also stopped
at the door of the mail car and demanded
an empty mail pouch, but another of the
robbers remarked: off we take anything
out of that car we might as well take al
Of it, that's United States mail"
The leader replied: That's so, we
don't want to run against Uncle Sam, we
Just want to tap Jay Gould little Bit"
When the attack was made in the eX-
press car one of the robbers sang out to
the passengers "keep your seats, we
don't intend to hang any Of you if you
will keep quiet"
PROBABLE AMOUNT OF THE HAUL.
Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, Msy 19.&ro-day Attor-
1ey- General Hogg, County Attorney
Barnhardt and Justice Calhoun took a |
shorthand mani and went to McNeal to |
examine certain parties who might |
brow light on the robbery. 1t is now be-
leved the amount taken from the |
express car was between $4,000 and $4,000. |
It is stated that the day before the rob- |
,ery about $500, 900 came down the road. |
r iS SuDDDsa1 il WAS that that the ont |